Coin-receiver for fare-boxes.



J. M. JOHNSON. COIN RECEIVER FOR FARE BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.1B, 1911.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

JAY M. JOHN SON, OF CHIGAG-O, ILLINOIS.

GOINHECEIVER EOlft FAR-EBOIKE$.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 18, 1911. aerial Ito. 666,328.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAY M. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Receivers for Fare-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numbers of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. i

In the use of fare boxes on street railways and elsewhere, it has sometimes occurred that a conductor or collector, has deposited a coin in the receiving hopper of a size suit liciently large to block the chute, thereby arresting" subsequent fares from delivery into the box, and later, When opportunity serves, removingthe coin.

The object of this invention is to attord a coin casing havinga plurality of delivery apertures therethrough, each of which is of a size to permit coin of the proper denomination to be delivered therethrough, and Which arrest a coin of a larger denomination, and the Walls of which are so con structed that, should a coin or larger clenomination be dropped into position to cover or partly cover one of said discharge apertures, the same will be unstably or tiltingly supported at its edges.

It is a further object of the invention to afford a device of the class described, in

Which a coin of larger denomination than that for which the device is intended, will be unstably supported therein, so that a coin of the proper denomination falling; thereon will tilt the same, permitting said coin to slide therefrom into the box.

The invention is intended particularly for use in connection with a fare box and register of the class embodied in the joint application for patent of Jay M. Johnson and Hugo ell. Baur, filed on the 7th day of Ne vember, 1910, Serial No. 591,093, though, of course,adaptable for use in connectionlwith tare registers and boxes out any kind or description. I

A preferred form of the invention is hereinatter more fully described.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional View of a coin hopper casing with my improved coin hoppers therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view cat the a section on the line 3-3 0t Patented la ov, lltl jlsl,

metal, as preferred, and in the drawings is shown as rectangular, inasmuch as the top of the fare box is rectangular, Fitted with in said peripheral Wall to afford a tight joint. therewith is the hopper plate proper, comprising a downwardly inwardly eonically tapering shell, the bottom of wl'zich pressed or stamped to attord 'ph inner hoppers, shot i sir: (6} (although, of course, number may i eaclt ol which tapers dotvnrva to the charge aperture 6, at its hot n, which or? a size to permit any coin for which the tare box is constructed, to fall freely therethrcug'h and through the receiver 3, into the fare box, The Walls of. said inner hoppers are each flattened at intervals around the bottom thereof or surrounding the discharge aperture to a'li'ord a non-circular discharge aperture, the curvature or said Walls for a part of their surface being much greater than the curvature oil other parts on each side thereof and at the same level, so that when a coin '7, ot a denomination larger than the fare box is intended to receive, is dropped into the fare box, it Will lodge therein, as indicated in dotted lines in 2 and 8, or in other JVO! lS,-Wlll he suppmrteol in the aperture of the hopper, so that when another coin, for example, the coin 8, indicated in dotted lines in 3, is

dropped thereon, said coin slides therefrom into the coin boa.

'lhe operation is sutliciently obvious :trom the foregoing description. ll hile have de scribed hoppers, the Walls or? which spoken of as non circular, or as having" difl'erent curvatures at the saline level, is to be understood, however, that any canton mations or said Walls, Whetller' provided with concavities or convezrities at will be capable of tiltingly supporting t. 00111 in the hopper, to permit other coins to slide therefrom into the tarehor', with in the scope Off this invention,

tiltinp ly he largpr -merous variations in detail and construction will readily suggest themselves. I therefore do not purpose limiting myself otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as 'my invention:

1. A device of the class described, em bracing inwardly tapering walls of irregular contour, the lower edges thereof outlining an aperture also of irregular contour, whereby the same will unstably support a coin larger than said aperture so that a coin smaller than said aperture falling therein will tilt said larger coin to permit said smaller coin to slide therethrough.

2. A device of the class describedfenr' bracing a hopper casing adapted to receive fares and having a plurality of hoppers arranged in the bottom thereof, each of the latter having inwardly tapering walls of irregular contour, the iower edges thereof outlining an aperture also or" irregular contour, whereby the same will unstably support a coin larger than said aperture so that a coin smaller than said aperture falling therein will tilt said larger coin to permit said smaller coin to slide therefrom through said hopper.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JAY M. JOHNSON. lVitnesses: CHARLES W. HILLS, Jr, GEORGE R. Moons.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

